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Surprisingly common in anime, shonen especially, is the tendency to run on power lines when racing to get somewhere. While at first doing this seems perfectly reasonable - after all, why run along the ground where you would have to follow the roads when you can just use the power lines and go straight there - there is a slight problem. Power lines may well support crows,<ref>as long as they're only touching one line at a time - if it touches two or more at once, its body acts as a bridge between them, resulting in a fried birdie</ref>
▲Surprisingly common in anime, shonen especially, is the tendency to run on power lines when racing to get somewhere. While at first doing this seems perfectly reasonable - after all, why run along the ground where you would have to follow the roads when you can just use the power lines and go straight there - there is a slight problem. Power lines may well support crows<ref>as long as they're only touching one line at a time - if it touches two or more at once, its body acts as a bridge between them, resulting in a fried birdie</ref>, but almost certainly not the weight of human beings. [[Don't Try This At Home|Things are even worse with high tension power lines]]; according to the History Channel, even the crews who maintain the things, with all their training and protective gear, occasionally die working on these. So, merely touching a high tension power line and anything connected to the ground (or another line next to it) is as close as one can get to a death sentence. Needless to say, [[Rule of Cool]] reigns supreme.
Many a character [[Shock and Awe|with electric powers]] does this, both because their power keeps their not being killed something ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|grounded]]'' in (semi-)reality, and because it's ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|conductive]]'' to their nature.
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Ichigo does this while running to Orihime's apartment to stop the hollow attacking her from killing her. But then, he's in shinigami form at the time, so it makes at least a little sense that the power lines don't break.
* ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': Ciel can do this. Again, [[Rule of Cool]] is king. Sensing a pattern here?
* ''[[Ranma
* In ''[[Golden Boy]]'', Kintaro wins a race, on bicycle, against a motorcycle, in part by using a power-line shortcut. It's a combination of [[Rule of Cool]] and [[You Fail Physics Forever]].
* The Catbus performs this trope in ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''.
* Hayato does this in ''[[Kenichi:
* Used in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Barbara Shelley does this in her first appearance as [[Promethea]] to save Sophie from falling to her death.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon:
▲* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon attempted it with great success. Justified, because he had access to alien technology. His personal assistant remarked that it was interesting, but inferior compared to teleportation.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Tango
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Cole from ''[[
** Cole can also use his electrical powers to 'glide' through thin air. His weight is likely a non-issue.
** On the other hand, it can still support his weight even before he learns to grind his way electrically, instead he just walks normally on the lines.
* ''Tony Hawk'' lets you grind power lines with your skateboard. Please [[Don't Try This At Home]]?
** Most skateboarding games, in fact.
* Raz [[Grind Boots|grinds]] on telephone lines in ''[[
* It's possible to do this in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' (though there's very little actual reason to), since power lines are treated as simply another solid surface.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank
* ''Amped 2'' lets snowboarders grind on cable car wires.
* ''[[Jet Set Radio
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' lets the entire cast get in on this when they decide to {{spoiler|crash Yuna and Seymour's wedding}}.
** Although, to be fair those weren't power lines as such, 'just' thick steel cables attatched to huge mechanical grapling hooks.
* Most of the gameplay in Scaler.
* In the Xbox reboot of ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', Ryu rides a high-voltage power line after jumping from a burning zeppelin.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Multiple characters from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' do this but it's [[Hand Wave
** [[Rule of Cool|The other reason being that]] [[I Have the High Ground]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Soul Power from ''[[Static Shock]]'' sort of ''surfs'' across power lines with his electric powers, sort of his version of Static's flying disc.
* ''[[
* ''[[Spider
* In one episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', the villain Megavolt does this, probably as a parody of ''[[Spider
* The opening sequence for the ''[[Mr. Magoo]]'' cartoons showed him [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8GTHXTEvIc driving his car] along the power lines. Not because he's [[Badass]] or super-powered, but because he's blind as a bat and doesn't know he's not on a road.
* The [[Looney Tunes]] "Bee-Deviled Bruin" has Pop doing a tightrope walk along a shutoff power line to get to a beehive. He shouldn't have left his halfwit son sitting at the switch, getting bored and fiddling with it...
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